But that had been before the interminable waste of the Grass War and the long train of young women and men in front of my desk with the trinkets they thought would give them a chance of not becoming food for crows in a field somewhere.

Jordan Kurella is a fiction writer whose stories have been featured in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, and Cotton Xenomorph. She is bisexual and disabled from a straight flush of mental health diagnoses. Jordan lives in Ohio with her husband James and her service dog.